JRowley

Well just another reason for me not to watch the new Top Gear, not a big fan of Chris Evans, though I don't hate him just to be clear.

WIN + C? In Windows 8 it opens the charms bar, but that's been removed in Windows 10 so they could just repurpose the shortcut.

Microsoft have stated that you can download an ISO if you wish to flatten the machine.

True, but in F1 they can and very rarely do power cycle the ECU. Though this doesn't happen at speed.

Not experienced this problem myself, seems to work fine here.

Well it took me a total of 40 minutes to get this information from Sky: Last month you used 229.17GB in the months May-June, in April-May you used 340.92 and currently you are using 191.60GB for this month and next. On the plus side after an hour of talking to them I had my bill with Sky reduced by £10 for a year.

No, of course they are tracking it, but they don't track it for my benefit is what I mean. I don't have access to it.

I'm with Sky and have their Unlimited Fibre package, as a result they don't track my usage because I don't need to worry about it, it's a shame because I've always been curious about it.

Give me a break BT, you aren't fooling anyone any more.

This is what you are looking for: Start Screen Layout - Specify Default in Windows 8.1 You login and customise the start screen how you would like it to be by default, unpin the apps you don't need, pin the ones you do. Then export the start screen layout with powershell and use a GPO to deploy it. Just a note, I have never used it but it seems pretty straight forward, and I would expect Windows 10 to work the same way.

ICT Department renamed to Computing Department, looking like it will become a Faculty with Business in the near future at our place.

Isn't it the other way around? Windows licensing for business is cheap as chips compared to buying home licenses.

I'm pretty sure Edge is available for every version of Windows 10, but if you use the LTSB release pattern you won't receive it. So you can for example run Enterprise/Education on the CBB release pattern and make use of Edge if you wish. Really LTSB sounds more like what you would use on your servers, specific machines which are critical to have running without software issues which could be caused by updates. CBB is more likely what you would use in general. This implies that Edge is an optional installation, be that a Windows Feature or a store app which you deploy as part of an image. By enabling LTSB on a machine you won't see or won't be able to deploy Edge.

Going to be buying a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB myself shortly, just seeing if the price will fall any lower before W10 launches.

SteamOS will run games which support Linux (less than a third of the store, mostly indie titles), or allows you to stream from a Windows PC. Making the market for it practically non-existent really. It's going to fail at competing with consoles due to lack of titles, and fail when compared to a regular PC with a HDMI lead.

Yeah this is another consideration for us, deploying both at the same time seems like the obvious choice.

2016 for us most likely, I'll update my own machine and perhaps one/two in the staff room for people to try out to give feedback on.

Just updated to state that the Insider Preview is always the latest build rather than a specific one because Microsoft are reusing the same links for the downloads.

What I'm trying to get at is that unless your going to create this script 100/1000 times (or once for every staff/student) there is no practical way for you to get the password from AD, or O365, or from CSV. Making this approach a bit unwieldy to say the least. Of course it depends how far you take it but I don't see this being a viable approach without ADFS to automate for you.

But can I just clarify, how do you populate the password field on a per user basis? Your script says simply: Which implies you manually add the password in plain text to the script.

They may have been caught in the quarantine. Go to the O365 Admin Dashboard, Exchange admin center, protection, quarantine.

Same as above.

Though that's pretty artificial, they would receive Windows 10 when they bought a new PC anyway, it reads as if you have to trade in the non-genuine device for a new device and they take some of the licensing cost of windows off the top. They reiterate:

It was initially announced by Terry Myerson (the head of Microsoft's operating systems unit) that they would get the upgrade for free and there was ambiguity regarding the status of their license afterwards. Microsoft then confirmed that they would get the upgrade for free, but their license would remain illegitimate.

It was confirmed that while illegitimate licenses can upgrade to W10 for free, they won't then get a legitimate license, so they won't be rolled into the family. Which I think is quite an oversight as they could have legitimised everyone, they won't magically get those people to join the family legitimately, they use illegitimate copies for a reason. So they wont be using the store.